{"id":1686,"date":"2020-01-09T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2020-01-09T22:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:18:18","slug":"goodreads-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2020\/goodreads-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodreads – 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using Goodreads<\/a> for several years to track my reading. It’s been interesting to see what a few of my friends are reading, and more generally what people as a whole think of the books that I’ve been reading. The other thing that appeals to me as I’ve switched heavily into reading ebooks, is that it gives me a sense of ‘collecting a shelf of books’ – without the actual books. I’ve also become a big user of the local library (and it’s lending of ebooks).<\/p>\n

In 2019 I read 50 books<\/a>, this is actually fairly typical for me, but I don’t always manage 50 a year. This is why I set my goal to 35, a number I’m certain to get to (in 2017 I only read 37). Breaking the goal gives me that sense of over-achieving and avoids me stressing at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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You can also visit my Goodreads profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My reading is almost exclusively science fiction or fantasy.\u00a0 It appears that the reading challenge shows the titles in reverse order, as the 1st book I read last year was The Martian<\/a> (I was re-reading it actually). I’d recommend the book, and the movie, both are very MacGyver<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Cosmic Trilogy was a physical book that I dragged through at the cottage over several visits. It was terrible, I should have just stopped reading it, but I finally finished it. Do not read this book! Certainly the worst book I read in 2019.<\/p>\n

I will call out a few great reads. Atemis<\/a> by Andy Weir. The Legend series<\/a> by Marie Wu (another re-read). I really enjoyed the Mortal Engines series<\/a> by Philip Reeve, very steam punk.<\/p>\n

I’m already into my 2nd book of 2020, and I’ve got some great titles waiting for me to get to. It should be a good reading year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using Goodreads for several years to track my reading. It’s been interesting to see what a few of my friends are reading, and more generally what people as a whole think of the books that I’ve been reading. The other thing that appeals to me as I’ve switched heavily into reading ebooks, is … Continue reading “Goodreads – 2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}